Yiwu International Trade City opened the market. Photo by Huang Hui
Yiwu International Trade City Opens in the Year of the Tiger for the first time to open live broadcasts to the world
Yiwu, February 12 (Huang Hui) On February 12, as the "weather vane" of the global small commodity trade, Yiwu International Trade City ushered in the opening of the Year of the Tiger after a short "standby" break, and 75,000 market operators opened their doors to welcome guests from all over the world.
This year, Yiwu International Trade City adopted the online live broadcast method for the first time, simultaneously broadcasting the market opening situation and issuing invitations to global buyers, attracting more than 100,000 viewers to watch.
At the scene, operators and buyers have successively completed temperature measurement and verification through the entrance intelligent gate and entered the site in an orderly manner. It is reported that in order to minimize the risks brought by the epidemic, the speed of personnel entering the market has risen to the fastest, and each entrance is equipped with intelligent identification equipment, and "one person, one code" is used for all operators and buyers entering the market.
With a good expectation for the New Year, market operators came to the business premises early to clean, sort out the shelves, update products...
After posting the Spring Festival League of "prosperous business", He Dan, the manager of the "Snow White" store, began to busily sort out orders.
A live broadcast room set up in Yiwu International Trade City. Photo by Huang Hui
She told reporters that in Yiwu International Trade City for many years, the store mainly sells all kinds of self-produced imitation dolls, and the products are exported to South America and other parts of the world. "Since the Spring Festival holiday, we have received more than 10 orders from home and abroad."
"Stop work and don't stop orders" has always been the operating state of market merchants during the Spring Festival holiday. It is reported that many business owners received the first order of the new year after opening.
Rathman from Nepal has been in Yiwu for nearly four years. His uncle has been rooted in Yiwu International Trade City for ten years, mainly exporting clothing, socks, etc. to Nepal, and the products are widely favored by customers because of their low price and high quality.
Today, he also came to the scene early. "I hope to find Yiwu good goods to recommend to my friends." Looking to the future, Rasman has a clear goal. He is studying business Chinese in Yiwu, and he will graduate next year and will stay in Yiwu to do business in the future.
Affected by the epidemic, many foreign investors are still unable to come to the scene to purchase this year, and the main battlefield of transactions has shifted from offline to online. "This is a new product of our family this year..." In the market, some operators are using the Chinagoods platform to live stream goods.
In a store in Yiwu International Trade City, buyers and operators are docking. Photo by Huang Hui
At the same time, the offline procurement group invitation is also in full swing, and the first batch of more than 1,000 high-quality buyers has completed the information registration.
According to statistics, in 2021, the average daily flow of people in Yiwu International Trade City is 122,400 people, the average daily opening rate is 93%, and the occupancy rate of commercial space remains above 98%.
Under the background of the global epidemic, Yiwu Commodity City Group developed and operated the chinagoods platform, a comprehensive service platform for digital trade, which has successively launched English, Arabic, Spanish and other national stations, cultivated more than 10,000 active merchants, more than 5 million kinds of commodities, and achieved a cumulative transaction volume of more than 16 billion yuan; built and put into use Chinagoods shared cloud warehouse and global Yida supply chain industrial park, linked 120 overseas warehouses, and launched 206 international logistics lines. Enhance the ability of market trade performance services. (End)